Vodafone GPRS costs

[derekcfoley]

I cant see much info on costs per megabyte for GPRS on the vodafone price plans, apart from £7.50 per meg, surely this must be wrong when O2 charge £2.35???

Anyone using Vodafone? can you verify this?

I live in a rubbish signal area (apart from Vodafone, so Orange, T-Mobile & O2 are not really an option)

Thanks

Derek

[derekcfoley]

Just to let you know that after over a week someone got back to me from Vodafone Customer Support, and quoted that their rate depended on tariffs, but mentioned 7.5p per kilobyte. Thats right KILOBYTE

Now lets do the math... my god, thats £75.00 for a meg!

Surely she's wrong.. so I replied to the email with utter amazement, i'll let you know further developments,

Someone on this board must be using the xda with vodafone in the uk, cant you let us know if this is accurate?

Or looking at this data charge perhaps not!
:D

[Peter Poelman]

http://www.all-vodafone.co.uk/info_pages/tariffs.shtml

.75p per kb for pay as you go, .235 on higher end subscriptions, so GBP 7.50 is right, GBP75.00 is wrong. 75/MB is only found on GPRS roaming at the moment. (Well, almost, anyway...)

[derekcfoley]

But surely the £7.50 you described would in fact be for 100k transferred, which is a tenth of what I'm talking about!
I meant "per meg" to compare with o2's price of £2.35 per meg.

If you still dont believe my maths with kbs to megs look here...
http://familyinternet.about.com/library/weekly/aa052401a.htm

unless as I said that there is something odd going in in the way Vodafone charges for data, on PAYG then it should be renamed to PTTN "paying through the nose!"

I havent seen anyone comment on typical data usage for GPRS on this forum, so here goes. On average using my xda to check emails several times a day, I've been getting through 16megs a month with hardly any websurfing, thats just POP & SMTP traffic using O2.
Which is a total of 16megs@£2.35 a meg = £37.60 just on data!

Now, theoretically on Vodafone PAYG
16x£75.00 = £1200 for the same amount of data!
Admittedly this would be on their Pay as you go Tariff, as per XDA developer Peter Poelman

On the monthly tariffs, it would be
0.235x1000 (to get price per meg)
=£2.35 (per meg)
Total £37.60 for 16 megs
which is the same price as O2

Utter Madness on Vodafone Pay as You Go :evil: - I can only conclude that unless the vodafone pricing is incorrect somehow, nobody would ever be able to afford to use the xda using GPRS on that network tariff for email, let alone web surfing!

Isnt it a shame GPRS is so generally so highly priced. Perhaps they dont want it to become too popular...

In a reasonable and "ideal" world, we'd pay a third of that, more like a tenner for 16 megs. :D

[Peter Poelman]

But surely the £7.50 you described would in fact be for 100k transferred, which is a tenth of what I'm talking about!
I meant "per meg" to compare with o2's price of £2.35 per meg.

.75p / kB = 7.5p/10kB
7.5p/10kB = 75p/100kB
75p/100kB = GBP7.50/1MB